Nine years ago today, with the help of two friends, I loaded all of my belongings into a U-Haul and left Providence, Rhode Island. I had lived there for six years, including college and developed quite a fondness for the city, but having outgrown my job while watching my peers leave town, I could feel …
It’s a busy week for me, with little piles of work to get done before the weekend (when I’m headed out of town) starting to mount. So I’m just going to shoot first and ask questions later, producing a hail of bullet points (or asterisks, as the case may be)… * The events of the …
Towards the end of a recent Baseball Prospectus Radio roundtable in which I participated, BP’s Joe Sheehan made a comment that came ringing back to my ears on Saturday: The willingness the Yankees have to assume contracts is such a huge advantage over just about every other team in baseball that any hole that develops, …
Three more excellent blogs are now under Christian Ruzich’s all-baseball.com roof: * Jon Weisman’s Dodger Thoughts is now at www.all-baseball.com/dodgerthoughts or simply www.dodgerthoughts.com. * Bryan Smith’s Wait Till Next Year is now at www.all-baseball.com/nextyear. * Peter White’s Mariner Musings is now at www.all-baseball.com/marinermusings. All three are making the switch from Blogger-driven Blogspot domains to Movable …
Newsday‘s Ken Davidoff and John Heyman are reporting that the Yanks are talking to the Texas Rangers about a deal which would bring in Alex Rodriguez to play third base in exchange for Alfonso Soriano, Jose Contreras, and catching prospect Dioner Navarro. Holy chicken molé. I’m not going to get too worked up over this, …
The Tampa Bay Devil Rays pitchers and catchers have begun reporting for Spring Training. There’s a punchline to be had in there, but I really don’t care. Forget what the groundhog told you twelve days ago. Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve made it through another winter. WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!
I was relentlessly critical of new Dodger owner Frank McCourt in his underfinanced but nonetheless successful pursuit to purchase the team. He didn’t win too many points immediately afterwards for his treatment of GM Dan Evans, a man who’s done a respectable job under the most trying of circumstances, yet is being given an invitation …
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While most of the world was sleeping, my second appearance on Baseball Prospectus Radio aired last Saturday morning. Host Will Carroll had me on for the second time in a month, this time as part of a Yankee-themed roundtable which also featured Prospectus’ Joe Sheehan, Bronx Banter’s Alex Belth, and Pinstriped Bible’s Steven Goldman. The …
One final thanks to everybody with whom I’ve buried the hatchet over the past weekend. The folding metal chair riot is over, we’re all a little wiser now for our past foolishness, and we’ve moved on. Now to some more lighthearted stuff… * One of the nicest things that’s happened to me over the past …
Sons of Sam Horn moderator Eric/Lanternjaw has apologized to David Pinto of Baseball Musings over the “unethical” charges in the comments to the original Schilling/Neyer thread. I don’t agree with everything else he has to say within his series of posts there, but I’m glad to see that he apologized because really, I’ve got better …
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